History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . nd are freshly remem-bered. Other descendants of the same Puritan an-cestry have won distinction. The same stock producedthe founders of academies bearing the name at Exeterand at Andover. It produced the famous Boston pa-triot of the Revolution, William Phillips ; his son,the first mayor of Boston, John Phillips; in the thirdgeneration, AVendell Phillips, a son of the latter, ourmatchless master of English speech; as well as thatmuch admired divine, the Rev. Phillips Brooks. The sub
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . nd are freshly remem-bered. Other descendants of the same Puritan an-cestry have won distinction. The same stock producedthe founders of academies bearing the name at Exeterand at Andover. It produced the famous Boston pa-triot of the Revolution, William Phillips ; his son,the first mayor of Boston, John Phillips; in the thirdgeneration, AVendell Phillips, a son of the latter, ourmatchless master of English speech; as well as thatmuch admired divine, the Rev. Phillips Brooks. The subject of this sketch was born at the familymansion in Charter Street, Salem, now occupied as aCity Hospital, August 16, 1823. His school experi-ence was unique. Before 1830 he had been a pupil atthe dames school of Miss Mehetable Higginson,and from that date on he enjoyed the successiveteachings of Henry K. Oliver, with whom Jones Very,David Mack, and Surgeon John L. Fox of the WilkesExploring Expedition were assistants, in Salem; ofFrederick P. Leverett, at the Old South Chapel in Bos- l Hubert S. - k$ £shU.
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